Genness, The Heritage book is written by individuals contributing about their families, based on their family research and family records. It is a very valuable tool, as is the Bowman book and others. They are all excellent resources, and a good place to get information to start with, and verify for yourself. Everyone's work has errors in it, we are human, we make mistakes. I try to watch for typos as I am entering data like dates, but it happens. Sometimes mistakes were made by the family member reporting a death, or a company doctor who turned in birth records in "bulk" for all the babies he delivered in a certain time period. Sometimes mistakes were made by census takers who wrote down names and ages of families they "knew" without actually going to the house, because it was easier. For me the "investigative" aspect of genealogy is the most fun. I take information from any and every resource I can find, and work with it, never accept it as gospel, but use it as a tool as I piece together my family jigsaw puzzle. Karen Brooks Willey Genness Addenbrook <[email protected]> wrote: The 2nd edition of the "Wyoming County Heritage" book published by the Wyoming County Genealogical Society is in the process of being published. If the Bowman book contains a lot of errors, does anyone know how accurate the info is in the Heritage book? I've got the Bowman book and am getting the Heritage one, so guess I can compare the info I need in the 2 books then check the records to see but could end up with multiple dates, names etc. Dates on birth certs, death certs, tombstones and Bibles seem to be all over the place. How can you be certain of any of them? I know this is Wyoming Cty's site, but my Milam ties are in both counties. I've got the Raleigh County West Virginia book by Jim Wood. Does anyone know of any other Raleigh County history books that might help in research in Raleigh County? Genness ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message